单词 | elegant |
释义 | elegant I. el·e·gant 1. a. < she is not conventionally beautiful … but she is charming to look at and elegant to her fingertips — John Martin > b. < carrying his briefcase, an elegant piece of luggage of excellent leather and the best bronze hardware — Lionel Trilling > < in the glade, still standing in it, many of them after two hundred years, are thirty-nine elegant white houses — New Yorker > c. < an elegant novel, one with the richness, restraint, and subtle obliquity which belong properly to elegance — Saturday Review > d. < mathematicians say of a problem, a demonstration, or a solution in their science, when it exhibits perfect lucidity and form, that it is elegant — Isabel Paterson > 2. pharmacy < an elegant nontoxic emulsion > 3. < he agreed with her that it must be an elegant place and he didn't wonder she wanted to go there — J.C.Lincoln > Synonyms: see choice II. ele·gant or élé·gant |
随便看 |
英语词典包含332784条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。